The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-18

OF privilege, calIeQ up the conference
report on the Interstate commerce
bill.
This action on his part aroused the
antagonism of friends of the patent
bill and of the general pension bills,
which were booked to follow it, al
Anderson (Kansas) raised the question
of consideration against the confer
Ience report. The House refused
yeas 1l3, nays 137-to consider
the interstate commerce bill repor.
and the House proceeded to vote upon
the motion to suspend the rules and
pass the bill to limit the jurisdiction of
United States courts in patent cases,
and to protect persons, who. without
notice, are bona fde manufacturers,
purchasers, vendors and users of pa 'ent
| articles The motion was lost-yeas
80 nays 156.
Mr. Watson lIndiana) on behalf of
the committee on invalid pensions,
moved to suspend the rules and pass
the bill for relief of dependent parents
and honorably discharged soldiers and
sailors who are now disabled and de-
pendent upon their own labor for sup
port.
Mr.. Watson stated that the first sec
ton OF the bill merely changed the evil
dence required by the pension office,
and would not cost the government
more than $50 600 annually. The total
number of persons who would be bene-
| fitted by the second section was esti-
mated at 3S, los, and the annual cost to
| government would not reach IS 600 600.
Morrill, (Kansas) favored the bill as
being a declaration that no old soldier
who followed the flag should end his
days in the poor house.
Springer (1llinois) favored the bill as
fair and conservative measure.
The bill was then passed-yeas 179,
nays rs. 1t provides that in consider
ing the pension claims of the depend mt
parents, the fact and cause of death
and the fact that a soldier left no
widow or minor children having been
shown as required by law, it shall be
necessary only to show that such
parents are without other present
means of support than their own
manual labor or the contributions of
others not legally bound for
their support; prOCtded, that no
pension allowed under this act shall
commence prior To its.passage. Sectio /
provides that any persons who served
three months or more in the military or
naval service of the United States in
any war in which the United States
has been engaged. and who have been
honorably discharged theIefrom, and
who are now or may hereafter be suffer
ing from mental or physical disabilities,
not theresult of their own vicious hab-
its or gross carelesSnesS, which incapaci-
tates them from performance of labor,
or in such degree as to render
them unable TO earn support, and who
| ,1nnnn6nnf fhair FOL
for support, shall, upon making due
proof of the fact, according TO such
rules and regulations as the Secretary
lof the Interior may provide in pur-
suance of this act, be placed on the list
of invalid pensioners of the United
States, and be entitled 10 receive, for
such total inability to provide their
substance by daily labor, $40 per month,
and such a pension shall CONNIE nee
from the date of the filling of the appli-
cation in the pension Office, up N proof
that the disability then txis and con-
tinue during the existence of he same
IN the degree herein provided. This act
shall not apply to persons under po-
| lltical disability or to any persons whose
disease was incurable while engaged in
military service against the United
States.
EIdredge (Michigan) on behalf of the
com nIlttee on pensions. moved that the
rules be suspended and the House
concur in the Senate amendment to the
Mexican pension bill.
The motion 10 suspend the rules and
concur in the Senate amendment was
agreed to-yeas 2l3, nays 5. The bill
now only requires the Presidential ap-
| proval to become law. 1t provides
| hnF n 81 I. ~ Ill l.,
paid to all surviving officers and en-
listed men, including marines, militia
and volunteers OF the military and
naval services of the United States, who
being duly enlisted actually served
sixty days with the army or navy OF
the United States in Mexico or on the
coast on frontiers thereof, or en- route
thereto in way with that,nation. or were
| actually engaged in battle in said war
and were hvnorably discharged, and 10
such officers and soldiers and sailors as
may have been personally named IL
any resolution of Congress fo-
any special service in said war,
and the surviving widows of
such officers and enlisted men, PfoCfd-
cd that such widows have not remar-
RED and PrOuided that every such Oil
| Ger, enlisted man or widow who Is or
may become 81 years of age, or who Is
or may become subject to any disability
or dependency equivalent to some OF
the causes prescribed or recognized by
the pension laws of the United States
as sufficient reason for an allowance OF
a pension. shall be entitled to the bene-
hts OF this act; but it shall not be held
t olnclude any person, not within the
rule of a5e or disability o. dependency
herein defined, or who incurred such
disability while in any manner yolun-
tariy en- gag ed in aiding or abettiug the
'aTe rebellion against the authority OF
the United States. Section 47l6 revise
statutes. is repealed so far as it related
to this act or 10 pensioners under tins
act.
Adj ,urned.
Skinny Men.
M els Health RepsWer'' restores